The Elusive Pimpernel
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| The Elusive Pimpernel | |
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 The Elusive Pimpernel Video Cover |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Produced by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Written by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Starring | David Niven Margaret Leighton Cyril Cusack Jack Hawkins |
| Music by | Brian Easdale |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Editing by | Reginald Mills |
| Distributed by | British Lion Films Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | February 6, 1950 UK |
| Running time | 109 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) is a film by the British-based director-writer team of Powell & Pressburger, based on The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, and its sequel The Elusive Pimpernel. It was released in the USA as The Fighting Pimpernel.
It stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney (aka The Scarlet Pimpernel), Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and Cyril Cusack as Chauvelin.
Originally planned as a musical, it was re-worked as a light-hearted drama, not entirely successfully.
[edit] Literature
- Ian Christie (1994). Arrows of Desire: the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. London: Faber & Faber, 163pp (illus. filmog. bibliog. index). ISBN 0-571-16271-1.
[edit] External links
- The Elusive Pimpernel reviews and articles at the Powell & Pressburger Pages
- Elusive Pimpernel at the Internet Movie Database
- The Elusive Pimpernel at the BFI's Screenonline. Full synopsis and film stills (and clips viewable from UK libraries).
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Powell and Pressburger The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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| 1930s | The Spy in Black | The Lion Has Wings |
| 1940s | Contraband | An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Forty-Ninth Parallel | One of Our Aircraft is Missing | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | The Volunteer | A Canterbury Tale | I Know Where I'm Going! | A Matter of Life and Death | Black Narcissus | The Red Shoes | The Small Back Room |
| 1950s | The Elusive Pimpernel | Gone to Earth | The Tales of Hoffmann | Oh... Rosalinda!! | The Battle of the River Plate | Ill Met by Moonlight |
| 1960s | Peeping Tom (not Pressburger) | They're a Weird Mob | Age of Consent |
| 1970s | The Boy Who Turned Yellow |
